The cost of booter services has plummeted in recent months. Last year the average stresser cost $38 per hour to rent, dropping to $19.

The five-bucks-an-hour services represent a new low. The price plunge may be due to the use of hacked infrastructure including home routers to power the booters, while various request amplification tricks can be leveraged to flood targets with large amounts of traffic.

Dead hacker group Lizard Squad was one of the most prominent seller of hacked booter services. Its Lizard Stresser service was claimed to be powered by thousands of hacked routers and was most famously used to knock Playstation and Xbox Live services offline over the Christmas period: https://twitter.com/lizardstresser